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    Thread: Fuckface's VP Choice?
Post: RE: Fuckface's VP Choice?

(04-28-2024, 12:02 PM)SYZ Wrote: Interesting story mate, but I'm not sure that yours (and Cavebear's) has anything to do with candidate Trump's presidential running mate.        :tdown:message re...
rocinantexyz World News, Politics and Current Events 23 786 04-28-2024, 05:58 PM
    Thread: Fuckface's VP Choice?
Post: RE: Fuckface's VP Choice?

(04-28-2024, 07:35 AM)Cavebear Wrote: (04-28-2024, 07:11 AM)rocinantexyz Wrote: The incident took place in a kind of vacant lot where people had been illegally dumping broke up reinforced concrete...
rocinantexyz World News, Politics and Current Events 23 786 04-28-2024, 08:18 AM
    Thread: Fuckface's VP Choice?
Post: RE: Fuckface's VP Choice?

(04-28-2024, 05:46 AM)Cavebear Wrote: What kind of weapon were you just...The incident took place in a kind of vacant lot where people had been illegally dumping broke up reinforced concrete. I grab...
rocinantexyz World News, Politics and Current Events 23 786 04-28-2024, 07:11 AM
    Thread: Fuckface's VP Choice?
Post: RE: Fuckface's VP Choice?

I was forced to take a healthy dog's life decades ago in melee combat (the owner directed the dog to attack me). I still feel guilty about it.
rocinantexyz World News, Politics and Current Events 23 786 04-27-2024, 07:41 PM
    Thread: Is Universal Basic Income a good solution for the future?
Post: RE: Is Universal Basic Income a good solution for ...

any system (in this case capitalism) that has food rotting for lack of a buyer, and people going hungry for lack of food in basically the same location; is an embarrassing failure.
rocinantexyz World News, Politics and Current Events 49 1,416 04-24-2024, 10:39 PM
    Thread: Australia's Broken Jurisprudence System...
Post: RE: Australia's Broken Jurisprudence System...

I'm of the radical opinion that justice is a dangerous myth. The notion of standardized sentences seems like a sick joke to me.
rocinantexyz World News, Politics and Current Events 28 921 04-24-2024, 10:19 PM
    Thread: Fundamentalists vs Evangelicals
Post: RE: Fundamentalists vs Evangelicals

(04-24-2024, 08:49 PM)Inkubus Wrote: That in itself is truly terrifying I don't see a road out of this. Were fucked.When significantly more people voted for Trump in 2020, than in 2016; that is when...
rocinantexyz Atheism & Theism 16 703 04-24-2024, 10:10 PM
    Thread: Fundamentalists vs Evangelicals
Post: RE: Fundamentalists vs Evangelicals

So they are saying there are 3 types of evangelicals; and one of the three sub-types is called evangelical as well?
rocinantexyz Atheism & Theism 16 703 04-23-2024, 01:20 AM
    Thread: Sean Carroll and the standard model of physics
Post: RE: Sean Carroll and the standard model of physics

(04-11-2024, 12:07 AM)Inkubus Wrote: I have not donated one penny to the upkeep of this website but if Stevie is allowed to poison this thread like he does every other tread, I will bung AF £20. Jus...
rocinantexyz Science, Engineering and Mathematics 9 498 04-18-2024, 09:26 PM
    Thread: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?
Post: RE: What Prohibits God From Being Natural?

In my experience, the word natural is a weasel word.
rocinantexyz Atheism & Theism 158 5,591 04-18-2024, 08:02 PM
    Thread: Do not conflate the artist and the art?
Post: RE: Do not conflate the artist and the art?

Isn't Rowling one of those people who portray trans-women as just men trying to sneak into restrooms with women? Isn't she one of the people driving this moral panic?
rocinantexyz Philosophy and Ethics 22 748 04-15-2024, 06:33 PM
    Thread: Walking in
Post: RE: Walking in

(04-13-2024, 09:27 PM)atheist_walks_in Wrote: You'd think it would be a contradiction in terms, but there is a surprising number of proselytizing atheists, who... If someone forced you to guess; whi...
rocinantexyz Introductions 23 1,248 04-14-2024, 12:44 AM
    Thread: Walking in
Post: RE: Walking in

(04-13-2024, 08:30 PM)atheist_walks_in Wrote: I am not an atheist in the sense that I don't want other people to be religious.What does that have to do with being an atheist?
rocinantexyz Introductions 23 1,248 04-13-2024, 09:21 PM
    Thread: The probability of the existence of the Christian God
Post: RE: The probability of the existence of the Christ...

@neutral  For example: The following sentence appeared in your probability calculation. Dividing the number of people with six or more coincidences by the global population leads to the desired pro...
rocinantexyz Atheism & Theism 253 9,564 04-09-2024, 09:14 PM
    Thread: The probability of the existence of the Christian God
Post: RE: The probability of the existence of the Christ...

(04-09-2024, 10:39 AM)neutral Wrote: There are a lot of things that I am sure you don't agree with until that part. I'm a mathematician, I went straight for the probability that was advertised in yo...
rocinantexyz Atheism & Theism 253 9,564 04-09-2024, 05:22 PM
    Thread: The probability of the existence of the Christian God
Post: RE: The probability of the existence of the Christ...

(04-04-2024, 03:36 PM)neutral Wrote: I will wait for people who can answer my questions. The title this thread is about probability. Will you be addressing this non-sense (which I believe was author...
rocinantexyz Atheism & Theism 253 9,564 04-05-2024, 11:03 PM
    Thread: War in Gaza and Israel
Post: RE: War in Gaza and Israel

(04-05-2024, 09:51 AM)Cavebear Wrote: If "you" have proven that you are a terrorist organization and the civilian population celebrates and support "you", then they are a partners of the terrorist o...
rocinantexyz World News, Politics and Current Events 382 13,075 04-05-2024, 10:47 PM
    Thread: My philosophy of good, bad, and emotions (rewritten)
Post: RE: My philosophy of good, bad, and emotions (rewr...

(03-26-2024, 08:34 PM)Inkubus Wrote: However, they can be taught. Critical thinkingCan it really be taught? I mean I hear about people teaching it all the time; but I'm skeptical.
rocinantexyz Philosophy and Ethics 35 1,646 03-26-2024, 09:39 PM
    Thread: Myers Briggs
Post: RE: Myers Briggs

The Soot-Caked Ragamuffin LPYA (Lovable Parasite Persnickety Antichrist) Weary, Bedraggled, Sad, Putrid
rocinantexyz Getting to Know You 19 601 03-25-2024, 08:54 AM
    Thread: My philosophy of good, bad, and emotions (rewritten)
Post: RE: My philosophy of good, bad, and emotions (rewr...

(03-24-2024, 12:00 AM)Mindwave Wrote: I never said an emotionless person's mindset can be an emotional state (amazement, for example). Yes, you inserted an extra link in the chain: you said amazemen...
rocinantexyz Philosophy and Ethics 35 1,646 03-24-2024, 12:07 AM
    Thread: My philosophy of good, bad, and emotions (rewritten)
Post: RE: My philosophy of good, bad, and emotions (rewr...

(03-23-2024, 06:15 PM)Mindwave Wrote: ...amazement (an emotional state) is an x state because an individual being amazed by something means said thing matters to him/her. X states are always emotion...
rocinantexyz Philosophy and Ethics 35 1,646 03-23-2024, 11:31 PM
    Thread: King Charles III
Post: RE: King Charles III

Sounds like Charles's magic healing crystals didn't work.
rocinantexyz World News, Politics and Current Events 22 734 03-22-2024, 06:39 PM
    Thread: The probability of the existence of the Christian God
Post: RE: The probability of the existence of the Christ...

After you have found a life form, what is the probability you found it in a location capable of sustaining life? I'd guess about 100%. We don't even know what the right question is (or if the concept ...
rocinantexyz Atheism & Theism 253 9,564 03-22-2024, 12:08 AM
    Thread: Attention whore
Post: RE: Attention whore

@AutisticWill I think people read WAY to much into the tiny amount of information we get about someone "online". In my opinion: humans have an instinctual flaw, when we can't count what is important,...
rocinantexyz Off-topic 10 426 03-21-2024, 10:15 PM
    Thread: The probability of the existence of the Christian God
Post: RE: The probability of the existence of the Christ...

(03-18-2024, 12:15 AM)Dānu Wrote: That's some weapons-grade stupid right there. My favorite aspect of this model: presumably the ratio of these special people to the total population changes. Implyi...
rocinantexyz Atheism & Theism 253 9,564 03-18-2024, 01:49 AM